“And Cush begat
Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth. He was a mighty hunter before
the Lord: wherefore it is said, Even as Nimrod and the mighty hunter before the
Lord. And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad,and Calneh, in the land of Shinar” – (Gen.10:8-10).

“And there followed another angel,
saying, Babylon is fallen,
is fallen, that great city, because she made all nations drink of the wine of
the wrath of her fornication… If any man worship the beast and his image, and
receive his mark in his forehead, or in hishand” – (Rev.14:8,9).

In God’s list of the sons of Ham, He stops
and gives Nimrod importance, so that we would take special note of it. Here in
the beginning of history in the book of Genesis we see a great truth that ends
at the end of history in the book of Revelation. God wrote these three verses
5000 years ago for the purpose of casting light upon the Antichrist soon to
come.

Nimrod’s name means ‘rebel’ and is evidently
meant to designate the nature and character of the man. Rebel means –
(Disobedient – a taking up of arms against a ruler and authority). His
rebellion lay in his disobeying the authority of God who rules over the
kingdoms of men as another king of Babylon named Nebuchadnezzar found out the hard way –
(Dan.4). As the rebel, he stands before us as the great adversary, the King
that does – “According to his will” –
(Dan.11:36). The Antichrist, who is the devil’s seed standing
in opposition to Christ who is God’s seed. He is of his father the
devil, the willful father of all the rebellious children of men who say – “not
God’s will but mine” – (Is.14:13,14). All the unsaved
rebels of the world will follow Antichrist, the rebel.

Nimrod came from Ham’s son Cush who was the father of the Africans and Ethiopians etc.
All the black races are Hamitic. The Bible depicts
the Cushites as being black and tall – (Jer.13:23 –
Is.45:14). “Can the Ethiopian ‘change’ his skin, or the leopard his
spots…” – (Jer.13:23). And we know that the Antichrist looks mostly like a
leopard – (Rev.13:2). Most pictures of Nimrod show him as a black man clothed
in a leopard skin. I believe it points to the black Antichrist whose key word
is ‘change.’ But Antichrist and political change cannot change the basic
rebellious, sinful nature of man – only Christ can.

Nimrod was a great man, a mighty hunter. ‘Mighty’
in the Bible mostly speaks of warlike greatness as in ‘mighty men’ or ‘mighty
warrior’ or ‘mighty men of valour.’ He was known as the
mighty hunter as his skill in hunting animals first had play. As a great hunter
he was known far and wide. And his leadership and skill in hunting animals soon
led to generalship in the dangers of the battlefield. The mighty hunter of the forest
is soon the mighty soldier of the plain. Weapons to kill animals soon led to
killing men. The subduer of the savage beast is soon the conqueror of his
fellow men. Such also will be the ambition of Antichrist as emperor over the
world – “Who is like unto the beast? Who
isable to make war with him” –
(Rev.13:4). Nimrod was a skilled hunter-warrior who became a powerful king much
like General Grant became our president after our civil war of rebellion.

The hunting of humans with armies in the
deadliest ‘game’ of all and the U.S.A. is the deadliest hunter of all. And you cannot
‘murder’ a beast, only a man. Our country is using its army to murder the
soldiers and civilians of Iraq because we attacked them, not in self-defense, but in
selfish offense. God’s judgment will soon fall upon U.S.

From being the general of his army of
hunters, he becomes a king, the first king in the Bible. And it wasn’t enough
to be king over one city, he became king over several cities.
Ambitious of power, he enlarged his kingdom, circle after circle, himself the
‘mighty one’ in the midst of his empire and his towering city of Babel. Building towers are monuments of man’s pride and
that’s what we see in Babylon-USA with our towering cities and especially with
the twin towers and 9/11. Will the black Antichrist be president of the U.S.? Will he then not also be ruler of Babylon-Iraq whom
we just conquered with our imperial army? Soon we will change totally from a
republic to an empire and we will elect our first king, the Antichrist, ruler
of Babylon-USA.

And in Nebuchadnezzar, Nimrod’s successor
and Antichrist’s precursor, we have another instance of the same far-reaching
ambition and pride. Because of Nebuchadnezzar’s pride God ‘changed’ his heart
into the heart of a beast and so Antichrist is also called a Beast – a cruel
ferocious beastly man who murders more people than any man ever. He and his
army strut across the earth preying upon weaker nations like a beast of prey –
(Dan.7). Antichrist the mighty hunter indeed. He claims
not only the world’s submission but their worship also. “Let his heart be ‘changed’
fromman’s, and let a beast’s heart
be given unto him…” – (Dan.4:16) ‘Change’ is a key word in Antichrist’s
mouth.

Nimrod was the one who attempted to bring
together the human race after the flood in an effort to get them ‘united’ into
a nation of which he could become the great world ruler. He was the rebel, the
founder of Babel and its tower and the hunter of men. He was the
shadow and type of the last world emperor, the Antichrist who is soon to
appear.

And as Babel and the first emperor was the beginning so Babylon the great and the last emperor, Antichrist, will be
the end. Babylon the golden city of man will fall and will be replaced
by the golden city of God, New Jerusalem – (Is.14:4-Rev.21). Antichrist is set
before us as the great rebel, the Nimrod, the mighty one of the end time
tribulation, the man that ‘exalts himself’ and becomes like God and seizes the
dominion of the whole earth, and compels everyone to worship him and receive
his mark-666 in order to buy and sell anything.

Nimrod took the sword of the magistrate, entrusted
to Noah and his descendants, and converted it into the bloody sword of the
conqueror. He became the world’s first imperialist and empire builder. He
foreshadowed Nebuchadnezzar and finally Antichrist of whom it is written – “…and he that sat on him had a bow; and a crown
was givenunto him: and he went forth
conquering and to conquer” – (Rev.6:2). A mighty hunter
of men indeed. Antichrist will fill out the picture typically outlined
by Nimrod and Nebuchadnezzar.

Satan is the avowed and age-long enemy of
God and all through history he has been opposing God and seeking to rule the
earth. He is an imitator and he counterfeits the ways and things of God. God’s
purposes on this earth are to be realized and consummated in a man “the man Christ Jesus” who will reign
over the God’s earth as King of Kings and Lord of Lord’s forever. Satan’s
designs will also head up in a man, “The
man of sin” who will for a short season reign over the earth as emperor. He
will be energized by Satan himself. Most of the characters in O.T. history are
types of one of two men – Christ or Antichrist.

Babel was Nimrod’s capital city of his empire and his
center of unity and his headquarters. So he built a tower in Babel so they said – “Let
U.S. make U.S. a name” – (Gen.11:4). It was an inordinate desire for fame –
“look at me, ain’t I somebody.” The tower was a
symbol of human pride and rebellion just as our towering skyscrapers in N.Y.
overlooking the only Babylon in the world, Babylon, N.Y. Look for another key word of Antichrist - ‘unity’ –
unity and change – amen.

The building of Babel and its tower was intended to promote and signify the
‘unity’ of the race. There was to be ‘one world’ with Nimrod as the ruler. The
world’s first federation of nations, it epitomized the last, for human history
begins and ends at Babylon – (Rev.17-18). As there was a great rebel behind the
first Babel, so there will be a great rebel behind the last one.
As the first United Nations organization centered everything in a cultural,
political unity, so will the last. We can certainly see Babylon-USA and our
towering city of N.Y. and the U.N. building there and our soon coming President-Antichrist.

They were to have a political unity,
symbolized by the city and they were to have a religious unity, symbolized by
the tower. The tower was a ziggurat or temple tower just as our cities have
towering churches and steeples. King Nimrod had a dream of empire like King
Nebuchadnezzar also had in (Dan.2). Nimrod built his city and tower out of clay
bricks and Nebuchadnezzar’s image dream of empires had clay feet mixed with
iron which is the final empire of Antichrist. It points to U.S. and our modern-day towers built out of iron beams and
clay bricks. Nimrod and Nebuchadnezzar look ahead to the last world empire, which will bear the same hallmarks. The Beast
will make great use of his one world government and one world religion which
ends in the worship of himself as God.

When the people of Babel started their building program they all were united
with one language and so God stopped their proud building by confounding them
by them speaking different languages. Their different tongues divided them and
they were scattered abroad and formed different nations each speaking their own
language. A language barrier is a wall higher and more effective in separating
people and stronger than any national border and any ocean. Here in AZ we see this
plainly as the U.S. is building a wall on their border between U.S. and Mexico. But the greatest wall and barrier is the different
languages which prevents people from working together and divides them.

There was another great tongues movement by
God at Pentecost that was the reversal of Babel. All the people gathered together in Jerusalem for the feast of Pentecost spoke different languages and
so God gave them the gift of other tongues so each could hear the other speak
in their own language. God was saying to mankind “I have a gospel of salvation
for you, and I’m coming to you with the gospel in your own language.” This
didn’t unite worldly people but it was a unity of the spirit in the children of
God. And so it is written of Christ – “For
thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy bloodout of every kindred, and tongue, and
people, and nation” – (Rev.5:9).

Have you received the gospel of salvation in
Christ? Are you born again of the Holy Spirit and saved from your sins and
hell? Born again describes what happens to you when you’re truly saved. If not,
repent of your sins and believe on the Lord Jesus in your heart for forgiveness
of sins and you’ll become a new born again creature in Christ. God will give
you a new language and instead of cursing Christ and His Father, you’ll praise
them. Instead of singing the world’s songs, you will “speak to yourselves in Psalms and hymnsand spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord”
– (Eph.5:19).